
The Congo After Leopold
Behind the Bastards
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Leery Devlin the CIA Guy
The CIA was also in the Congo and they start counting every russian they see step out of an airplane. This stuff goes up the food chain and it gets to Dwight the Eisenhower's ear now this is right when the cold war is ratcheting up. The exact chain of command for everything was in doubt but in 2000 the guardian dug up some information from the national archives a 1975 interview with a guy named robert johnson who had been the minute taker in the white house on the fateful day.
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